Sayon's Bell (1943)
Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.
Director:
Hiroshi Shimizu
Writers:
Kihan Nagase, Toyojirô Nagashima, Torashiro Saito.
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Yoshiko Yamaguchi as Sayon |
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Toshiaki Konoe as Takeda |
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Kenji Oyama as Murai |
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Kinuko Wakamizu as |
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Hideko Mimura as |
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Hiroshi Mizuhara as Sayon's father |
| Directing | Hiroshi Shimizu | Director |
| Writing | Kihan Nagase | Screenplay |
| Camera | Suketarô Inokai | Director of Photography |
| Art | Minoru Esaka | Art Direction |
| Sound | Yoshisaburo Seno | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Torashiro Saito | Editor |
| Sound | Masao Koga | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Toyojirô Nagashima | Screenplay |
| Writing | Torashiro Saito | Screenplay |
| Editing | Suketarô Inokai | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tetsuzô Shibata | Costume Design |